A7RII movie file naming problem

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3hats

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Of all the pro & cons discussed concerning the A7 series cameras, movie file naming is never brought up. The camera resets MOVIE file names to zero each time a card is formatted. (Still images are not reset, they continue numbering in consecutive order after a card is formatted.) What we are left with is non-unique movie file names from card dump to card dump. Is there a solution to this? I can't seem to find one. Ideas?
thanks
Bill d
 
3hats said:
Of all the pro & cons discussed concerning the A7 series cameras, movie file naming is never brought up. The camera resets MOVIE file names to zero each time a card is formatted. (Still images are not reset, they continue numbering in consecutive order after a card is formatted.) What we are left with is non-unique movie file names from card dump to card dump. Is there a solution to this? I can't seem to find one. Ideas?
thanks
Bill d
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This really is a major pain in the ass. I've not found a great work around aside from renaming the files. What I do is add the card # to the beginning of each file. When I offload I put them into folders such as Card 1, Card 2, etc etc... then I use a program called NameChanger (OSx) and add C1, C2, etc to the file. You can also do this in Prelude if you'd like. What you end up with is C1-C0001 - then I move all the files back into one folder. The allows the file to show up in the order they were shot. I also use the A6000 as my B-Cam and it's structure is the same way. What I then do is add A and B to the file name eg. AC1-C0001 and BC1-C001.
 
I use EditReady to injest all my media. It does a rewrap (so no transcoding, although you can if you want) and appends a creation date to the filename, resulting in unique files for each card. Highly recommend this workflow.
 
Eric and jayhawker
thank you for the feedback. I use a similar program, Name Mangler, to achieve the same results. Of course, it is that extra step that I will surely either forget or just be too lazy to keep up with.
How hard could it be for Sony to address this? It is like so many aspects in their camera design and engineering, off the mark by so little but causes so much frustration- record button, menu design etc.
Head scratcher
thanks for the feedback
Bill d
 
This is what works for me when I use two cameras and multiple cards. Fist I name each folder as camera/card 1,2,3 ... Than when I import clips in premiere I create separate bins for each camera/scene and move all clips in to appropriate bin before I import next card. This way I know exactly where the footage is and there is never a problem with mixing it up.
 
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